Virgi Dall'Aglio
Portal to Enigma
July 23 - August 13, 2010
Reception:
Thursday August 5, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
The delightfully effervescent abstract paintings of the Switzerland-based Italian artist Virgi Dall'Aglio have an irrepressible, catchy, musical quality. She occasionally works with broad ranges of colors and styles of applications, and elsewhere pares down her aesthetic to a more arresting combination of two hues on white, one applied lightly, the other with a wide, dripping brush. In both cases the alternation of clean, straight lines and twisting, expressive swaths suggests not only the measures and movements of musical notation, but also the footsteps and tracks of dancers progressing across an open floor.
Looking at Virgi’s acrylic compositions becomes tantamount to performing a kind of waltz with our eyes as they follow the swooping, caressing, intersecting and overlapping lines that mark each work. It’s an engrossing project, and one easily becomes absorbed in the gentle arcs and dizzying zigzags of any painting, discovering, in the process, the over-arching balance of color fields and sharp vertical dividers. Virgi Dall'Aglio invites us to dance between hard lines and playful loops.
Artist Statement
In my artistic production the need to communicate is fulfilled in abstraction, which is possible because it is linked to my inner search. My style develops from within me, and users are invited, to use their own sensations on an intimate trip that may conduct them to different mental spaces. I often use signs in my work, adding levels of meaning, and color balance is very important to me. I work in a woody basement where I feel free to experiment with my ideas and with various materials - acrylics, paints, etc. From this starting point come stories and introspection, all presented to my audience and contained within their own dimension.
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